Turner’s GameTap service has been sold to Eurpean digital distribution company Metaboli, as was announced by both companies jointly this afternoon. Under the arrangement, the GameTap service will continue in the U.S. as-is, but behind the scenes Turner will stay on in a “partnership” to assist in the technical and migration support for the service [...]

Nearly three months after dissolving their editorial branch, online games service GameTap will now reportedly be looking for a buyer as parent company Turner has decided to sell the company.
Revealed in the company’s second quarter financials this morning, the documents show an $18 million writeoff that is attributed to the decision: “The current year quarter [...]

Earlier this morning, GameTap announced the launch of American McGee’s Grimm to their broadband games service. Comprising of 24 episodes each based on a classic fairy tale, the first episode (“A Boy Learns What Fear Is”) will sell for the wallet-burning price of free.

“The opportunity to work with GameTap to develop truly unique content in [...]

GameTap announced late yesterday afternoon an expansion in their relationship with Interplay that will result in a number of new franchise being added to the company’s download service.
As part of the new deal, Fallout, MDK, Descent will make their GameTap debuts, and the Earthworm Jim games will make their return to the service’s slate.
“GameTap continues [...]

Despite not even being up for a year to this point, Turner Broadcasting System has decided to terminate GameTap’s editoral and video branches. In doing so, staff from both branches have been laid off.
“We have had a lot of successes over the last year and the move to the web has been a good one [...]